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Date & hour: 10 February 2025 hour: 14:30
Emotional learning: from behavior to neural mechanisms
Learning from reinforcements has led to the evolutionary development of emotions. I’ll describe our models for how learning from punishments is different than learning from rewards, and the underlying neural pathways and codes. I’ll focus on generalization, exploration, and memory extinction, and how they are controlled by the balance between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex. Finally, I’ll suggest how these models might account for psychopathologies such as PTSD and anxiety.
Rony Paz;
B.Sc in mathematics and CS, B.A. in philosophy (hebrew univ)
PhD in computational neuroscience (Hebrew U.; neural codes of learning visuomotor skills)
Postdoc in comp. neurophysiology (Rutgers; neural mechanisms of emotional learning)
Since 2008: Weizmann Inst. (Professor, Dean of biology, Director of Azrieli inst. for brain and neural sciences)
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Date & hour: 10 March 2025 hour: 14:30
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Date & hour: 07 April 2025 hour: 14:30
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Date & hour: 12 May 2025 hour: 14:30
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Date & hour: 16 June 2025 hour: 14:30
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Date & hour: 13 January 2025 hour: 14:30
Can Measurement Deliver Change in Education? What happened during the last decade - and where do we go from here
This seminar will explore some of the latest figures about Israel's education attainments, before sharing some past lessons and future ideas about measurement in education.
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Date & hour: 16 December 2024 hour: 14:30
Bridging in-school science education and real-world scientific practice: Towards learning through societal participation
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Date & hour: 09 December 2024 hour: 14:30
Inequality and Global Dimensions in Education – A Sociological Perspective
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Date & hour: 11 November 2024 hour: 14:30
Department Seminar
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Date & hour: 28 October 2024 hour: 14:30
Through Students' Eyes: Unveiling Trust and Bias in AI-Generated Formative Feedback
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Date & hour: 09 September 2024 hour: 14:30-16:00
A seminar in memory of the late Prof. Maxim Bruckheimer
The 2024 Prof. Meir (Maxim) Bruckheimer prize for excellence in Ph.D. studies is awarded to David Perl-Nussbaum for his study on “Interdisciplinary dialogic argumentation and change in epistemic practices among science teachers”, conducted under the supervision of Prof. Edit Yerushalmi and Prof. Baruch Schwarz.
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Date & hour: 17 July 2024 hour: 12:00-13:00
A Processive Framework for Evaluating Computer Science K-12 Curricula and Its Application to the Israeli Curriculum for Elementary Schools with a Focus on Problem Solving and Abstraction
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Date & hour: 01 July 2024 hour: 14:30-16:00
The role of physical and visual representations of chemical processes in learning and assessment in junior high school
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Date & hour: 10 June 2024 hour: 14:30-16:00
Between GenAI and Open Knowledge: the case of Wikimedia projects as learning platforms.
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Date & hour: 27 May 2024 hour: 14:30-16:00
Synthetic Ex Utero Embryogenesis: from Naive Stem Cells to Complete Embryo Models
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Date & hour: 20 May 2024 hour: 14:30-15:30
The Wisdom of the Educational Crowd: Teacher and Learner Sourcing Pedagogical Knowledge to Support Personalized Instruction in Blended Learning Environments
PhD Thesis Defense
Seminar will be held at Science teaching lab #3
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Date & hour: 01 April 2024 hour: 14:00-16:00
Orly Kaplan seminar – 2024
Readiness: A missing link between problem solving in teacher professional development and in the mathematics classroom
Seminar summary (In Hebrew)
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Date & hour: 11 March 2024 hour: 14:30-16:00
ULTRASAT: Revolutionizing our view of the transient universe
ULTRASAT is an Israeli-led scientific satellite that is planned to be launched to a geo-stationary orbit in 2027. It will carry a telescope with an unprecedentedly large field of view (200 squared degrees) and UV (230-290nm) sensitivity. These unique properties will enable us to detect and systematically study transient astronomical events within an extra-Galactic volume that is hundreds of times larger than that accessible to current observatories. ULTRASAT’s measurements will have a broad science impact across the fields of gravitational wave sources, supernovae, variable and flare stars, active galactic nuclei, tidal disruption events, compact objects, and galaxies. In this talk I will review ULTRASAT’s key science goals, its unique technical properties, and the project’s structure and status.
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Date & hour: 12 February 2024 hour: 14:15-16:00
Conceptualizing the temporal dimension of teacher learning: What can we learn from the case of teachers of displaced students?
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Date & hour: 29 January 2024 hour: 14:30
Language production in education: Automated evaluation and applications
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Date & hour: 18 December 2023 hour: 14:30-16:00
AI is from Mars, Human Cognition is from Venus: Understanding AI and human problem-solving, and building bridges of communication between them
Effective decision-making in complex problems demands careful consideration of alternatives, a challenge amplified in sequential decision-making scenarios with expansive search spaces. For example, deciding which move to make in a game of chess requires analyzing a large search tree of potential moves made by the player and its opponent, while treating a complex disease requires consideration of potential outcomes of alternative regimes and their long-term effects.
In this talk, I will discuss two projects studying human and AI problem-solving. The first project explores how individuals prune vast search spaces, revealing intriguing heuristics employed by humans that, while potentially sub-optimal, yield high-quality performance within limited computational resources. The second project aims to convey AI agents’ decision-making policies to human users by demonstrating the behavior of the agent in a selected set of world-states. User studies show that while such information is beneficial for people’s understanding of agents’ strategies, the interpretation of AI’s behavior depends on cognitive aspects such as people’s knowledge of the domain and computational limitations.
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Date & hour: 27 November 2023 hour: 13:00-14:30
Disaster Psychology - from indifference to anxiety, and from resilience to hope
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Date & hour: 09 October 2023 hour: 14:15-16:00
Judging the quality of measurements - a neglected topic in science classes
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Date & hour: 04 September 2023 hour: 14:15-16:15
A seminar in memory of the late Prof. Maxim Bruckheimer
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Date & hour: 21 August 2023 hour: 14:30-16:00
Contemporary challenges for science education: perspectives from Brazil
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Date & hour: 17 August 2023 hour: 14:00-15:30
From crystal rim to plate tectonics – Reviewing the scientific logic of a set of research projects that span from micron-scale observations to planetary size conclusions
From crystal rim to plate tectonics – Reviewing the scientific logic of a set of research projects that span from micron-scale observations to planetary size conclusions
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Date & hour: 26 June 2023 hour: 14:00-16:00
Seminar and award ceremony in memory of Avishay Bar-Ner – 2023
The affective experience of authentic science education environments:
Design and Research.
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Date & hour: 12 June 2023 hour: 14:00-16:00
Orly Kaplan seminar – 2023
June 12 , 2023
Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
Presenter : Dr. Reut Stahi-Hitin
How can the conceptions of religious science teachers and scientists toward religion-evolution relationship, enhance the teaching of evolution in class?
Seminar summary
The Invitation -
Date & hour: 29 May 2023 hour: 14:30
Characterizing the causal role of large-scale network interactions in supporting complex cognition
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Date & hour: 08 May 2023 hour: 14:30-16:00
Bio4Community: The Design of a Justice-Oriented Biology Unit for Middle School
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Date & hour: 24 April 2023 hour: 14:30-16:00
Meta-Reasoning: The Challenge of Effective Problem-Solving Regulation
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Date & hour: 03 April 2023 hour: 14:30-16:00
Learning processes vis-à-vis psycho-physiological measures: Formal and informal learning environments
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Date & hour: 20 March 2023 hour: 14:30-16:00
Discipline-culture – a New Paradigm of Knowledge Representation in Science Education
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Date & hour: 30 January 2023 hour: 14:30-16:00
Science learning across time and settings – a learning ecosystem approach
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Date & hour: 23 January 2023 hour: 14:30-16:00
Investigating the Dimensions of the Scientific Modeling Competence: Practices, Products, and Metamodeling Knowledge
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Date & hour: 16 January 2023 hour: 14:30
Scientific Reasoning in Model Construction and Model Application
Science teaching lab #3
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Date & hour: 02 January 2023 hour: 14:15-16:00
Bridging authoritative and internally persuasive voices – a Bakhtinian perspective on everyday engagement with science
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Date & hour: 12 December 2022 hour: 14:15-16:00
Mathematically-responsive teaching: present developments and future opportunities
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Date & hour: 28 November 2022 hour: 14:30-16:00
Religious-based tensions surrounding evolution education in Israel: Experiences and thoughts from the field
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Date & hour: 07 November 2022 hour: 15:00-16:00
Webinar: Framing an ecological perspective on mathematics teachers’ professional development
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Date & hour: 02 November 2022 hour: 13:00-14:00
Webinar: Pattern-oriented instruction, its practical application, and the connection to various manifestations of abstraction in computer science
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Date & hour: 19 September 2022 hour: 14:15-16:15
A seminar in memory of the late Prof. Maxim Bruckheimer
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Date & hour: 11 July 2022 hour: 9:00-16:00
ECRICE 2022 - The 15 European Conference on Research in Chemical Education
The conference will take place on 11-13.07.22.
Conference program
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Date & hour: 27 June 2022 hour: 14:30-16:00
Before science: Developing epistemic perspectives
Presenter: Prof. Michael Weinstock, Department of Education, Ben Gurion University.
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Date & hour: 20 June 2022 hour: 14:30-16:00
How do students learn in an interdisciplinary online course about epidemic outbreaks?
Presenter: Dr. Haim Edri, Science Department, The Center for Educational Technology (CET)
Dr. Guy Hed, Mathematics Department, The Center for Educational Technology (CET -
Date & hour: 13 June 2022 hour: 14:00
Bar Ner Award
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Date & hour: 23 May 2022 hour: 15:15-16:45
Humanities in an Accelerated Techno-Scientific Era: New Challenges and Horizons
Presenter: Prof. Leo Corry, History and Philosophy of Science Inst., Tel Aviv University.
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Date & hour: 15 May 2022 hour: 14:30-16:00
External lectures, the mathematics group meetings
Presenter: Dr. Lihi Telem, teaches at Beit Berl College and the Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts. Postdoctoral Fellowr at the Technion.
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Date & hour: 11 April 2022 hour: 14:00
Kaplan Award
Presenter: Anna Hoffmann
The contribution of academic mathematics studies to teaching mathematics in secondary schools: The case of knowledge about the discipline of mathematics.
Seminar summary
The Invitation -
Date & hour: 04 April 2022 hour: 13:00-14:00
“ Pedagogy of differentiated instruction in the chemistry classroom: Impact of customized pedagogical kits (CPKs) on misconceptions, achievements, self-efficacy, and attitudes of high school students and teachers
Presenter: Enas Easa
Seminar summary
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 21 March 2022 hour: 14:30-16:00
A Mathematics Teaching Framework and levering change: Possibilities and limits
Presenter: Prof. Jil Adler, School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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Date & hour: 14 March 2022 hour: 14:30-16:00
Opportunities and Challenges in Promoting Teachers' Professional Learning during their practice - Lessons from "Hashkafa" Research
Presenter: Prof. Adam Lefstein, Department of Education, BGU, Israel
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 28 February 2022 hour: 14:30-16:00
Emotional-Social Aspects in Teachers' Collaborative Learning: Opportunities and Challenges.
Presenter: Dr. DanaVedder‐Weiss, Department of Education, BGU, Israel
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Date & hour: 20 February 2022 hour: 14:00-16:00
External lectures, the mathematics group meetings
Presenter: Prof. Lori Rubel, Head of the Department of Mathematical Education in the Faculty of Education of the University of Haifa.
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Date & hour: 17 January 2022 hour: 14:30-16:00
Epistemic cognition
Presenter: Prof. Clark Chinn, School of Education, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Seminar summary
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 03 January 2022 hour: 14:30-16:00
Argumentation in the science classrooms
Presenter: Prof. Christa Asterhan, School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Date & hour: 26 December 2021 hour: 10:00-11:00
Organizing learning and teaching in online information-rich environment: Higher education chemistry courses for teachers and students
Presenter: Yael Feldman-Maggor.
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 22 December 2021 hour: 13:30-14:30
Professionalization processes of facilitators in mathematics teachers' professional development programs
Presenter: Gil Schwarts
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 19 December 2021 hour: 14:30-16:00
External lectures, the mathematics group meetings
Presenter: Prof. Alan Schoenfeld, University of California, Berkeley.
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 13 December 2021 hour: 14:30-16:00
Mathematicians and Mathematics Educators: A Community of Practice to Explore PCK with Videos.
Presenter: Prof. Greg Oates, School of Education, College of Arts, Law and Education (CALE), University of Tasmania
Seminar summary
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 28 November 2021 hour: 14:00-16:00
External lectures, the mathematics group meetings
Presenter: Dr. Alik Palatnik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | HUJI · School of Education
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Date & hour: 15 November 2021 hour: 14:30-16:00
The challenge of cross-disciplinary STEM instruction and communication
Presenter: Prof. Joe (E. F.) Redish, Department of Physics, UMD, USA.
Seminar summary
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 14 June 2021 hour: 14:30-16:00
Measurement and Assessment in Massive Open Online Courses
Lecture by Dr. Sa'ar James Karp Gershon
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Date & hour: 24 May 2021 hour: 14:30-16:00
Bar-Ner Seminar
Presenter: The award recipients: Yael Nurick and Asaf Bar-Yosef
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 03 May 2021 hour: 14:30-16:00
Civil Science: A Bridge Between School, Community and Science
Presenter: TCSS Team, Haifa University and the Technion: Yael Kali, Tali Tal, Dani Ben-Zvi, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Yotam Hod, Ornit Sagi, Dina Tsybulsky
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Date & hour: 19 April 2021 hour: 14:30-16:00
The concept of energy as a Cross-cutting concept
Presenter: Avraham Merzel, The Hebrew University
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 12 April 2021 hour: 14:30-16:00
Orly Kaplan Seminar
The award recipients: Ruth Waldman and Ella Ofek
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 22 March 2021 hour: 13:30
Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead and Live without Barriers.
Presenter: Jo Boaler, Stanford
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 22 February 2021 hour: 14:30-16:00
Professional development of mathematics teachers
Presenter: Einat Heyd-Metzuyanim, Technion.
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 01 February 2021 hour: 14:30-16:00
Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE)
Presenter: Eugenia Etkina, Rutgers, New Jersey
Seminar summary
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 11 January 2021 hour: 14:30-16:00
Gender participation patterns in science studies
Presenter: Halleli Pinson and Yariv Feniger, Ben Gurion University
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 21 December 2020 hour: 14:30-16:00
Supporting student needs as an essential infrastructure for teaching Social Emotional Learning (SEL) skills
Presenter: Avi Assor, Ben Gurion University, and David Fortus, Department of Science Teaching, WIS
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 30 November 2020 hour: 14:30-16:00
Learning Communities of Math Teachers
Presenter: Karin Brodie, School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Seminar summary
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 09 November 2020 hour: 14:30-16:00
Promoting customized physics teaching and learning using the PeTeL environment
Presenter: Asaf Bar-Yosef, Department of Science Teaching, WIS
Location: zoom -
Date & hour: 19 October 2020 hour: 16:45-17:30
How can Natural Language Processing (NLP) be used to diagnose student progress - and how do teachers respond?
Presenter: Marcia Linn, Graduate School of Education, Berkeley
Location: zoom
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